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Education Administrators, Postsecondary earn $104,590 a year at the midpoint

Where you land matters more here than in most jobs — the top tenth earn more than 3.3 times the bottom tenth. The midpoint is $104,590.

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$104,590median a year · United States
$50.29an hour $126,540average 180,470people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$80,87025th $104,590median $144,37075th
$64,56010th percentile $215,62090th percentile
$80,870a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$139,640best-paying state · New York
$78,240lowest-paying state · Arkansas
+34%top state against the national median
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  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
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  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

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State matters a lotThe same job pays $139,640 in New York and $78,240 in Arkansas — a gap of $61,400 a year.

Postsecondary education administrator earnings, from starting pay to the highest 10%

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No. 96 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 88% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 94 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products $104,920
  2. 95 Database Administrators $104,620
  3. 96 Education Administrators, Postsecondary $104,590
  4. 97 Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $104,300
  5. 98 Mechanical Engineers $104,110

Postsecondary education administrator wages across the states

The 47 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.78 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
New York $139,640 $87,240 $87,240 — $278,010 7,280
New Jersey $131,570 $84,060 $84,060 — $224,550 4,100
Massachusetts $128,970 $79,040 $79,040 — $228,410 9,120
Delaware $128,570 $82,640 $82,640 — $331,850 360
Wyoming $127,960 $85,770 $85,770 — $174,170 120
Washington $127,630 $85,770 $85,770 — $220,610 2,140
South Dakota $126,160 $86,610 $86,610 — $228,660 240
California $125,460 $76,700 $76,700 — $216,480 14,870
Wisconsin $124,960 $78,890 $78,890 — $198,850 1,190
Connecticut $123,190 $75,050 $75,050 — $220,570 2,100
Oregon $120,110 $75,020 $75,020 — $229,730 2,790
Colorado $118,440 $80,740 $80,740 — $239,370 1,770
Kentucky $114,310 $77,630 $77,630 — $230,220 890
Georgia $110,200 $72,910 $72,910 — $230,780 2,890
Kansas $110,020 $62,750 $62,750 — $227,000 1,760
New Mexico $109,480 $76,820 $76,820 — $178,830 1,160
Michigan $108,500 $62,420 $62,420 — $236,640 5,110
District of Columbia $107,390 $77,260 $77,260 — $246,220 1,880
Rhode Island $106,520 $75,370 $75,370 — $216,270 1,140
Oklahoma $105,830 $59,390 $59,390 — $231,490 1,700
Minnesota $104,740 $78,140 $78,140 — $176,270 2,110
Missouri $104,560 $63,110 $63,110 — $213,740 2,830
Vermont $104,450 $68,530 $68,530 — $226,460 550
Texas $104,390 $66,860 $66,860 — $215,450 16,660
New Hampshire $104,190 $75,830 $75,830 — $213,310 920
Pennsylvania $103,740 $71,150 $71,150 — $209,530 8,000
Arizona $103,280 $65,300 $65,300 — $213,610 5,140
Montana $102,980 $66,940 $66,940 — $174,190 300
North Dakota $101,600 $64,420 $64,420 — $233,160 600
Idaho $101,200 $62,260 $62,260 — $169,370 870
North Carolina $101,060 $64,490 $64,490 — $185,140 7,390
Tennessee $100,850 $65,000 $65,000 — $224,710 2,680
Utah $100,420 $50,670 $50,670 — $218,010 2,320
Alabama $100,030 $62,570 $62,570 — $211,370 3,760
Illinois $99,770 $62,270 $62,270 — $172,540 9,530
Louisiana $98,840 $61,880 $61,880 — $214,270 3,670
Indiana $98,000 $61,030 $61,030 — $213,580 3,370
Nebraska $96,030 $61,520 $61,520 — $215,130 1,560
South Carolina $95,570 $60,190 $60,190 — $177,740 2,990
Iowa $89,320 $59,960 $59,960 — $174,270 2,510
Nevada $88,810 $60,950 $60,950 — $176,730 1,320
Maine $88,180 $63,360 $63,360 — $178,200 860
Ohio $87,370 $59,990 $59,990 — $177,930 6,880
Mississippi $86,590 $50,590 $50,590 — $219,180 2,230
West Virginia $84,660 $53,160 $53,160 — $198,330 1,520
Hawaii $81,020 $37,340 $37,340 — $133,560 570
Arkansas $78,240 $51,910 $51,910 — $166,240 1,970

Related work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Education Administrators, Postsecondary$104,590
Architectural and Engineering Managers$171,270+$66,680 Natural Sciences Managers$167,220+$62,630 Managers, All Other$141,900+$37,310 Medical and Health Services Managers$123,860+$19,270 Construction Managers$114,990+$10,400 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary$105,870+$1,280

Resumes for education administrators, postsecondary

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  • Designed or used assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
  • Recruited, hired, trained, and terminated departmental personnel.
  • Directed, coordinated, and evaluated the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.

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Postsecondary education administrator pay rate, hourly to yearly

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Questions people ask

What is a postsecondary education administrator’s yearly income?

A postsecondary education administrator makes a median of $104,590 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $80,870 and $144,370.

What is a postsecondary education administrator’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $50.29 an hour; the average is $126,540 a year.

What is the starting pay for a postsecondary education administrator?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $80,870 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $64,560.

Which state pays education administrators, postsecondary the most?

New York, with a median of $139,640 a year.

How many people work as education administrators, postsecondary?

About 180,470 in the United States — number 96 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Jobs that pay about the same

Median pay within $330 of what education administrators, postsecondary earn — $104,590 a year — but not always the same spread.

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